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The Pentagon inspector general's office said that a review of records from the unit, known as Able Danger, found no evidence it had identified ringleader Mohamed Atta or any other terrorist who participated in the 2001 attacks.
Torture in Iraq may be worse now than it was under Saddam Hussein, with militias, terrorist groups and government forces disregarding rules on the humane treatment of prisoners, the U.N. anti-torture chief said.
The House Intelligence Committee approved by voice vote a bill that would put into law the Bush administration’s program of wiretapping without warrants. The sponsor had rewritten the measure to make it more to Mr. Bush's liking.
The White House and senior Republican lawmakers reached an agreement on guidelines for interrogating suspects in the US-led war on terror, ending a week of contentious negotiations. President Bush, reacting to the deal, said the agreement "clear
In a significant but little-discussed move, the Bush administration is asking Congress to strip the federal courts of jurisdiction to hear cases brought by Guantánamo detainees challenging the legality of their confinement.
American attempts to persuade Europe to think again about financial involvement in Iran may be starting to bear fruit, according to European banking officials. Whether such "back-door sanctions" will work is far less apparent, experts say.
In a sign that spaceport competition is now an entrepreneurial venture, Mr. Larson's company is scheduled to make the first launch from New Mexico's nonfederal spaceport - an airport for space travel - Sept. 25. The 20-foot-long, unmanned
The Bush administration had to empty its secret prisons and transfer terror suspects to the military-run detention center at Guantánamo because CIA interrogators had refused to carry out further interrogations and run the secret facilities.
The Wynne story came and went so quickly that radio journalist Charles Goyette from KFNX in Phoenix tried to follow up. An interview was scheduled with the Air Force Secretary's spokesman, USAF Major Aaron Burgstein, to get elaboration on the Sec
Thousands of Sudanese marched on the US embassy in Khartoum to protest against Western pressure on Sudan to accept 20,000 UN peacekeepers in war-torn Darfur. The protesters see proposed UN peacekeepers as an invasion force
Renewed raids at Iraqi homes by joint U.S.-Iraqi security forces are angering Iraqis – while failing to improve the worsening security situation. "Operation Forward Together should be called 'To Hell Together,'" 53-year-old Hamid Fa
The irony of this publicity campaign over Tehran's alleged bid to undermine the occupation is that Iran may well be the main factor holding up a showdown between militant Shi'ites and U.S. forces.
More than 50 nations issued a plea for 10 more countries to ratify a 10-year old treaty banning nuclear tests, a step that would transform an informal moratorium into a binding commitment. A meeting of "Friends of the Comprehensive Nuclear Te
"The hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species. We continue to warn you about this danger and we appeal to the people of the United States and the world to halt this threat, which is
One of the organizers called out: "We have time for one or two more questions." "But no time for any answers," one of the reporters muttered. "This is pitiful," said a cameramen. Bad idea to call a news conference if you
President Bush said he would order US forces to go after Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan if he had good intelligence on his location. But Pakistan's president told reporters that his government would oppose any US action in its territory.
The United States military said it had found no evidence that the Iraqi government and its police were behind Shi'ite sectarian death squads murdering Sunnis in Baghdad.
Human embryonic stem cells can partly restore vision in blinded rats, and may offer a source of transplants for people with certain eye diseases, researchers at a U.S. company reported.
British and Dutch customs officials have cracked a multi-billion pound value-added tax fraud network. First Curacao International Bank in the Caribbean was shut down after investigators discovered that every single person charged with so-called caro
The government used prewar data to estimate the cost of caring for veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, which contributed to a $3 billion budget shortfall at the Veterans Affairs Department since 2005, congressional investigators say.
When it comes to President Bush's approval rating — the number that measures his political health — one factor seems more powerful than any Oval Office address or legislative initiative. It's the price of a gallon of gas. Statisticians who ha
At the center of the congressional debate over whether to authorize harsh interrogation tactics in the war on terror is a fundamental truism. Cruelty is an uncomfortable concept for most Americans. How mean is too mean? When does harsh treatment b
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who filed a landmark article last June in Rolling Stone concerning evidence of a stolen 2004 Presidential Election in Ohio, is set to rock the country again in tomorrow's Rolling Stone, The BRAD BLOG can now report.
Reflexiones Libertarias
“Extremismo en defensa de la libertad, no es un vicio. Moderación en la procuración de justicia, no es una virtud.” “El enfrentar a los violentos, no es promover la guerra, es garantizar la paz entre los hombres de buena voluntad.”
The letter and spirit of Hugo Chavez's glorious Bolivarian Revolution
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The Pentagon has created a new desk to work on Iran policy. That worries some at the CIA, who point out that many of the new Iran-desk staffers are the same people who staffed the now-notorious Office of Special Plans in the run-up to the Iraq War.
The extent of the torture and abuse that British residents held at Guantanamo Bay claim to have suffered is revealed for the first time in a series of recently declassified interviews between the detainees and their human rights lawyers.
Four government auditors who monitor leases for oil and gas on federal property say the Interior Dept suppressed their efforts to recover millions of dollars from companies they said were cheating the government. The accusations, many of them in fou
